A canopy of umbrellas provides shelter for pedestrians Friday in downtown Jackson. Partly cloudy skies and cooler temperatures are forecast to follow the rain.

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If April showers bring May flowers, what do extended periods of rain followed by a record-breaching dip in temperatures bring? Mississippians will find out this weekend, then the unusually cool weather should begin to give way to the May warmth we've all come to expect.

It's a central US thingMississippi was looking at some of the lowest May temps it has seen. Arkansas recorded snowfall in May - something the state had never seen before, at least as far as the records show. Missouri hadn't seen a snowy May day in more than 100 years, according to Kansas City station KCTV-5.